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Aaron M. "Mac" Mendoza I, 69, of Lexington, passed away Friday, Jan. 25, 2013, at High Point Regional Hospital.
Graveside service will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Salisbury National Cemetery, 501 Statesville Blvd., Salisbury, NC 28144. Military honors will be conducted by The Lyerly Volunteer Honor Guard.
Visitation will be 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Tuesday at Haven Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall, 207 W. Harrison St., Salisbury, NC 28147
He was born Dec. 7, 1943, in Brooklyn, N.Y., the son of Jacob Mendoza and Blanca Rosa Carretero Mendoza. Aaron was a typesetter before becoming disabled. He was a member of the U.S. Army and served in Vietnam and was of the Methodist faith. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by grandson Branden Little.
Those left to cherish his memories are wife Diana Nanfria Mendoza; son Aaron M. Mendoza II of California; daughters Kimberly Mendoza of Linwood, Tami Clark and spouse Neal of Lexington and Evelyn Nanfria of California; brother Michael Mendoza of New York; sister Jessica Mendoza-Caudill of Lexington; grandchildren Alysha, Kalysha and Megan Clark, Sarah Hill, Douglas Parker and Elizabeth, Daniel and Michael Mendoza; great-grandchildren Madilynn Parker, Jasper and Brooklyn Little; former wife and best friend Carolyn Mendoza; six nieces and two nephews; numerous cousins; and his beloved K-9 companion, Speedy.
Lyerly Funeral Home is serving the Mendoza family.
Online condolences may be made at www.lyerlyfuneralhome.com.
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Aaron M. "Mac" Mendoza I, 69, of Lexington, passed away Friday, Jan. 25, 2013, at High Point Regional Hospital.

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It is possible to run Valgrind/Memcheck and ThreadSanitizer on NaCl. Valgrind can now debug both trusted and untrusted code.
Currently, Valgrind for NaCl is supported only on Linux x86_64.
Bots that run NativeClient tests with Memcheck and ThreadSanitizer can be found on the NaCl waterfall:
Running Valgrind/Memcheck
From a NativeClient source checkout, Valgrind can be run with the following command:
For more options, see the Memcheck manual or type
src/third_party/valgrind/bin/memcheck.sh --help
Running ThreadSanitizer
From a NativeClient source checkout, Valgrind can be run with the following command:
buildbot=tsan works almost the same way as
buildbot=memcheck, but the tool at
src/third_party/valgrind/tsan.sh is used instead.
ThreadSanitizer has a different set of options, see http://code.google.com/p/data-race-test/wiki/ThreadSanitizer for reference.
One important difference from Memcheck is that ThreadSanitizer for NaCl can detect either race in the trusted, or in untrusted code, but not both at the same time.
buildbot=tsan detects races in the untrusted code.
To look for races in the trusted code, use
./scons --nacl_glibc --mode=dbg-host,nacl platform=x86-64 buildbot=tsan-trusted tsan_bot_tests
--nacl-untrusted to detect races in the untrusted code.
Running Valgrind and ThreadSanitizer manually
If you want to run a NaCl binary under valgrind w/o using scons (for example, with NaCl SDK):
Essentially, this is a normal sel_ldr command line with some addtitional options and the
http://build.chromium.org/p/client.nacl/builders/lucid-64-glibc-dbg-valgrind/builds/1103/steps/memcheck/logs/stdio (change the revision number to a recent one).
Implementation details
GLibC support
To read debug info from untrusted DSOs, significant changes were made to both Valgrind and the untrusted loader (runnable-ld.so).
Normally, Valgrind observes all mmap() calls by the programs and looks for three mappings (rw, rx, and ro) from the same file. At this point it identifies the file as a DSO and attempts to read symbols from it. This method does not work with NaCl because the code is copied into the untrusted address space after validation, instead of being mapped directly from a file. Also, large regions are mapped 64K at a time for Windows compatibility reasons.
To help Valgrind detect loading of an untrusted DSO, several hooks were added to the dynamic loader: nacl_dyncode_valgrind.c
These are two pairs of an empty function and a corresponding Valgrind interceptor. During normal execution (w/o Valgrind) the empty function is used adding very little overhead. Valgrind runtime magic replaces it with the interceptor, which sends mapping parameters to the Valgrind core and helps it build a correct view of the process address space.
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Public IRC Board Meetings
The Fedora Project Board holds at least monthly public meetings on IRC.
There are two IRC channels available on Freenode (irc.freenode.net). To participate, join both of these channels:
- #fedora-board-public -- this channel can be joined and used by all community members like any public channel. There will be a moderator present to take questions and the Board members can watch this channel as well.
- #fedora-board-meeting -- this channel can be joined and viewed by the public but only Board members can communicate on it. Here the Board members will cover an agenda and then take Q&A.
This setup promotes an orderly process when the Board takes questions or open issues. The length of the Q&A will depend on availability of the Board members and interest from the community.
We look forward to seeing community members at the meeting. We also hope you will enjoy having a look at some of the Board's work, and encourage you to ask questions.
room settings
- #fedora-board-public ChanServ commands:
set contact mdomsch set alternate stickster mlock +cnr access add {board members} 49 access add {moderators} 20 set topiclock on
and channel commands:
mode -t
- #fedora-board-meeting ChanServ commands:
set contact mdomsch set alternate stickster mlock +mcntr access add {board members} 49 access add {moderators} 20 level set autovoice 1 set topiclock on
and channel commands:
mode -t
This gives board members complete control over the channels, and autovoices them -meeting. It also gives moderators voice and necessary powers.


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introduction post if you wonder what all this is about (and keep in mind, I have a tendency to type with tongue firmly in cheek)~ this series is meant to take a fun but intentional look at the challenge of raising a child in a princessified (yes, it is a word, I swear it!) culture. I keep wanting to qualify the things I say for fear of offending someone, so I am going to stop that now by reminding you (and myself) that this is all my own opinion and I am open to dialigue, debate, objection and education~ it is just the ramblings of one mom of one girl about an issue close to her heart (and maybe yours).
The list of topics is at the bottom of the post, and I will link them up as each is completed.
Today... 'Don't Call Me Princess'.
I related my daughter's consternation at being taken for a princess while wearing a crown~ when in fact she was The King. Another mom shared her daughter's frustration that, while being dressed as a pirate, people kept calling her a cute pirate princess, or just a princess. They resolved this confusion (that an eye patch and cutlass must surely bring to all bystanders as to the nature of what they are seeing) by the pirate wearing a sign around her neck stating "I ate the Princess". Love it!
While there isn't much we can do about how outsiders are going to label our children, it does provide a perfect opportunity for our kids to practice respectfully setting the record straight~ the skill of learning to speak up for one's self is one that we women, especially, have trouble with. And since it is often much harder to speak up to peers, beginning to develop these chops on unsuspecting grownups is a great place to start!
But when it comes to how we speak to our kids, that we can control!
Language defines reality. Names it, gives it power and life.
Words matter.
While we all have a stable full of reliable nicknames for our kids (ours include Bubbitz, Turkey, Kitten, Rowie Ro Ro Shabadoo Jr.), which might even include, for some, 'Princess' *gasp*, it is the others words we use for our daughters that may impact their self understanding.
Many writers have written of the pitfalls of 'good girl' as a descriptor.
What words do we use? Pretty? Smart? Goofy?
What ones come up most often?
I know that I have tried to make a discipline of offering balanced and honest feedback that applies to particular situations... "that was very kind of you to thank Mrs. Smith when she called you a princess even though you are a dragon" and to include more specific words like gentle, caring, funny, persistent...
Even so, in a recent exercise where Rowan was asked to tell someone about herself, her first response?
At age 5 being pretty 'like a princess' has become very important!
So what if that is not fleshed out? What if we are not intentional about helping our children becoming aware of other values, skills and gifts? What if Pretty Like a Princess is taken up as the whole of our daughter's little world or how she sees herself (along with the well meaning folks who think every young girl wants to be called Princess)? At an age where the lines between reality and fantasy are very fuzzy, we do our children a disservice if we don't offer them the world of possibilities that belong to them regardless of gender!
So here's to Mommy's Little Princess who is also witty and kind, thoughtful and brave, able to fight fires and climb trees and wear a tiara with ease when wrestling dinosaurs in the jungle.
And if you would like to do an interesting exercise with words and self-perception, check out Wordle!
You can ask your child to name things about themselves and record them and create word art.
It would be a great exercise for a child able to write~ if they wrote a paragraph about themselves and inserted it into the filter... I think it is a great tool for exploring self perception and building self-esteem, enjoy!
What do you think? Please add your thoughts and comments to the comments for this post!
1) Don't call me Princess
2) Get outside and get dirty.
3) Practice Empathy ::Consider other points of view
4) Avoid the Pink Aisle/ Resist the Hype
5) Be Creative (act, sing, dance, make...)
6) Develop a variety of interests
7) Keep toys simple and open ended
8) Share the classic Fairy Tales
9) Keep child's play child friendly and child focussed
10) Love the Rainbow
11) The Real Thing
12) The Fairy Cheat
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- Annicles said...
We used wordle at school for a similar exercise. The children enjoyed it and it was surprising how many of them were shocked to be described as fun or loving. I think they expected more negative descriptors (which would have been against the rules, obviously!).
When my 6 year old starts asking me if she is a good girl it is often because of something that has beem said at school - if there has been an incident, Livi is often held up as an example of a "good" girl because she is incredible well behaved at school. She lets it all hang out at home though. I find it is important to help her give herself some more concrete labels. We talk about the incident and then we can say that she was brave and thoughtful. We also talk about how she felt. Often she says, inside she is angry with the child who has hurt another child or embarrassed at being made an example of but she has to have her "good Girl" face on. So we let the anger out - she punches cushions or says all the mean words that have been pent up inside her knowing that I will just let her experience that and let it out.
It is a strain being the good girl. What happens when the mask slips? I haven't worked that one out yet!
- 17 March 2011 at 04:10
- Unknown said...
Well, she is blessed to have a mama who lets her express it and helps her find the words and feelings she needs!
I know things like 'pretty', 'good/ bad' come home from school here, too, often about the other kids 'so and so is bad' and we often have the chat about poor choices rather than bad kids!
- 17 March 2011 at 08:26
- kerstin said...
I am happy to hear from another non-princess mom! My monkey girl always made up stories with the princess saving the prince...or the prince mysteriously missing, and not missed. What is a princess really? Someone who was born into a family of affluence and power and often traded like cattle for political purposes. I'd rather be a dragon any day :)
- 17 March 2011 at 20:24
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- 17 March 2011 at 23:01
- Amie said...
My 7 year old loves to point out the "pretty girl" in her movies and I love to play the game with her of who's pretty on the inside and who's pretty on the outside. Whether this practice is good bad or other I'm not sure yet but it gives her a good grasp of the idea that beauty comes from the inside out.
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LOS ANGELES — A collection of reactions to Whitney Houston's death Saturday in Beverly Hills at age 48.
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— "I truly, truly adored Whitney Houston. Her album 'I'm Your Baby Tonight' was the very first album I ever bought." — Michelle Williams of Destiny's Child.Slideshow: Whitney Houston, 1963-2012 (on this page)
— "I can't believe that Whitney is gone. My heart goes out to her family, to Clive (Davis), and to everyone who knew and loved this amazingly talented and beautiful artist. I will always love her." — Barry Manilow.
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The most recent Google Chrome dev build added a feature that lets you synchronize your bookmarks with a Google account. Because of a technical issue with Google's new sync technology and because Google Chrome uses folders instead of labels, bookmarks will not be displayed in Google Bookmarks, but in Google Docs.
How to try the new feature? Make sure you use Google Chrome's dev channel, which includes a buggier and less polished version of Google Chrome. Then create a desktop shortcut for the browser, right-click on the shortcut, select "Properties" and edit the "Target" field by appending:
(make sure to add a space before pasting the flag). You should see something like this if you're using Windows Vista:
C:\Users\Ionut\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe --enable-sync
Restart the browser and you should find a new option in the Tools menu: "Sync my bookmarks". Enter your credentials and the sync process should start immediately. You'll be able to access your bookmarks in a weird location: a read-only folder inGoogle Docs (things will look less weird when Google Docs is transformed into Google Drive, a general-purpose online storage service). Install Google Chrome's dev build on a different computer and you'll be able to access your bookmarks, edit them and all the changes will be saved online.
Google will release a sync API so that developers can add similar features for other services. "To make this sync infrastructure scale to millions of users, we decided to leverage existing XMPP-based Google Talk servers to give us "push" semantics, rather than only depending on periodically polling for updates. This means when a change occurs on one Google Chrome client, a part of the infrastructure effectively sends a tiny XMPP message, like a chat message, to other actively connected clients telling them to sync," explains a Chromium document.
Tip: import the bookmarks from Google Bookmarks by clicking on the Tools menu, selecting "Import bookmarks and settings" and choosing "Google Toolbar" from the list.
Update: The file that implements the syncing algorithms (syncapi.dll) includes many references to GDrive, so it's likely that Google will use the same technology to synchronize all the files stored in Google Drive.


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Ryan Adams has announced that he recently hit the studio with successful DJ deadmau5, writing on Twitter, "Recording a track with my new pal @deadmau5 today. Sounds like Blade Runner starring Don Henley." Proving he wasn't kidding (at least about the collaborating part), Adams tweeted a photo of them together. No details have emerged on the song's release date.
In addition to working with Adams, things are going pretty okay for EDM superstar deadmau5 lately. His new record, the frustratingly named album title goes here, debuted at No. 6 on the Billboard charts this week, racking up 58,000 in sales. Previously, his best-selling record, 4X4=12, topped out at No. 47, moving just 27,000 units in its biggest week.
All that comes without much promotion, either. The mouse-headed DJ is taking a little break from touring. So far, he has no dates scheduled for the rest of the year, and only two 2013 shows confirmed: March 29 at Lollapalooza Brazil and April 6 at Lollapalooza Chile.


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The exterior of the Daihatsu Hijet is very good. It has a rudimentary design. The Daihatsu Hijet is available in numerous colours. Without any surprise Daihatsu has produce this vehicle marvelously.
Daihatsu Hijet Color Options
The available Daihatsu Hijet colour in Myanmar car market are:
- Black
- White
- Gray
Among them, the popular colour choice is white. The rest are pretty rare as most dealers would rather deal with the popular colour.
Daihatsu Hijet Dimensions
Overall dimension of Daihatsu Hijet:
- Length : 2,995 mm (118 in)
- Width : 1,295 mm (51 in)
- Height : 1,615 mm (64 in)
Daihatsu Hijet Prices
According to their requirements their vehicle should be outfitted with good quality features and also has a cheap price so they can easily afford. Daihatsu Hijet Price is very reasonable. You can easily buy this vehicle at an affordable price. We have a range of models from 2005 through to 2012 in Myanmar Market. And the price ranges are around 53 Lk Kyats to 165 Lk Kyats. Overall price of the Daihatsu Hijet Generation is fairly competitive when compared to other models in the same class available in the local market.
Alternatives to Daihatsu Hijet in Myanmar
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Auburn at LSU and Tennessee at Florida sounds like a big day in the Southeastern Conference.
Beyond the Deep South, though, those rivalries don't quite resonate the way they did not so long ago, and it is part of the reason this week's college football schedule is short on marquee matchups.
The Volunteers haven't beaten the Gators since 2004, and No. 19 Florida is favored by more than two touchdowns to extend its winning streak in the series to nine games.
"We have to be the team that overachieves on Saturday," said first-year Tennessee coach Butch Jones, whose Vols are coming off a 59-14 loss to Oregon.
Florida (1-1) had last week off, after losing at Miami the week before. It allowed the Gators to get some banged up players such as quarterback Jeff Driskel (knee), offensive linemen Jon Halapio (pectoral) and Tyler Moore (ankle) and cornerback Marcus Roberson (knee) healthy.
LSU has won five of the past six in the annual SEC West Tiger fight. Only Cam Newton's one season at Auburn has produced a recent victory in the series for the War Eagle set.
Auburn is off to a 3-0 start in its first season rebuilding under coach Gus Malzahn, including last week's 24-20 victory against Mississippi State on a late touchdown pass, so optimism abounds on the Plains.
A road trip to Death Valley, however, has brought the mood of many teams down.
"I'm real curious to see our team responds (on the road)," Malzahn said.
No. 6 LSU (3-0), like Florida, opens SEC play as a big favorite, thanks in large part to improved play at a position that's been a trouble spot for several seasons, even with all the Tigers' success.
Quarterback Zach Mettenberger is third in the nation in passer efficiency rating, with seven touchdown passes and no interceptions. Coach Les Miles credited new offensive coordinator Cam Cameron with Mettenberger's improvement.
"I think Zach is seeing the reasons for the calls and what's expected and has really embraced the work ethic that's allowed him to enjoy practice, enjoy play call, and really enjoy the position that is quarterback," Miles said. "It's more leadership; it's more strategic. It's a thinking man's position, and I think he's enjoying it greatly."
An upset in either of the SEC's big rivalry games could have a real impact on the conference races and beyond.
The picks:
No.23 Arizona State (plus 7 1/2) at No. 5 Stanford
First test for Cardinal … STANFORD 31-21. MARQUEE MATCHUP
Michigan State (plus 7) at No. 22 Notre Dame
Irish defense has been more hype than production so far … NOTRE DAME 21-17.
Auburn (plus 17 1/2) at No. 6 LSU
Mettenberger and Auburn QB Nick Marshall both transferred from Georgia … LSU 31- 20.
Tennessee (plus 17) at No. 19 Florida
Vols still searching for a quarterback … FLORIDA 35-14.
Others to watch
No. 15 Michigan (minus 17 1/2) at UConn … MICHIGAN 38-13.
Purdue (plus 24) at No. 24 Wisconsin … WISCONSIN 37-17.
Louisiana-Monroe (plus 29) at No. 20 Baylor … BAYLOR 62-28.
The Wolverines tried hard to get out of this road trip, but to no avail. Boilermakers put up a fight against Notre Dame, but Badgers should be salty after odd end at Arizona State. ULM pushed Baylor last season and, if nothing else, won't shy away from trying to keep pace with the Bears.
Colorado State (plus 39 1/2) at No. 1 Alabama … ALABAMA 42-10.
Florida A&M (no line) at No. 4 Ohio State … OHIO STATE 55-7.
Florida International (plus 42) at No. 7 Louisville … LOUISVILLE 58-10.
Bethune-Cookman (no line) at No. 8 Florida State … 50-10.
North Texas (plus 32 1/2) at No. 9 Georgia … GEORGIA 41-14
SMU (plus 28 1/2) at No. 10 Texas A&M … TEXAS A&M 56-21.
New Mexico State (plus 42 1/2) at No. 13 UCLA … UCLA 58-13.
Savannah State (no line) at No. 16 Miami … MIAMI 62-0.
Idaho State (no line) at No. 17 Washington … WASHINGTON 55-14.
Maine (no line) at No. 18 Northwestern … NORTHWESTERN 49-10.
Texas State (plus 26 1/2) at No. 25 Texas Tech … TEXAS TECH 45-14. Last week: Record straight: 14-4; vs. points 5-
11-1; Season: 51-10; 22-28-1.
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When it comes to celebrity bling, putting a ring on it never looked this good! Here are some of our favorite engagement and wedding rings of all time. Of course, our newly engaged star Alexis Bledel made the cut! Find out who else made our list below!
1. Engagement Ring: Alexis Bledel
Bledel is one lucky lady! The star showed off her octagonal-shaped diamond engagement ring during the premiere of Remembering Sunday yesterday night. Her Mad Men co-star and real life love interest Vincent Kartheiser proposed last month. A source told Us Weekly, "She's been wearing her ring. It's huge!" They weren't kidding!
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Christina Aguilera
Aguilera's ex, Jonathan Bratman, went mad old school when he popped the question with a 5-carat diamond encased in platinum filigree and an elaborate proposal in a hotel room filled with rose petals, balloons and gift boxes. In each box was a poem written by Bratman. But when Christina opened the last box, the ring was in it, and Bratman got down on one knee and asked, "Will you do me the honor of being my wife?" They lasted five years, one for each carat.
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Evelyn Lozada
There was nothing subtle about the 10-carat diamond ring that footballer Chad Ochocinco slipped on Basketball Wives star Lozada's finger—and neither was her tweet about the gem: "I'm no rabbit but 10 carats looks good on me!!" We agree!
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Salma Hayek
Considering that her husband is a billionaire haute-couture mogul, Hayek wears a surprisingly inexpensive ring (it reportedly cost $200,000) that's nevertheless fabulous with its 5-carat oval diamond.
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Jennifer Lopez
When the Bennifer wedding was called off, the 6.1-carat pink diamond ring, which cost Ben Affleck $1.2 million, was reacquired by celeb jeweler Harry Winston, who designed it.
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Jennifer Lopez
"Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got…" Well, can we at least reserve the right to be dazzled by the $4 million engagement ring given to the former Jenny from the Block by Marc Anthony, which featured an extremely rare 8.5-carat blue diamond—and which Lopez is said to be selling.
7. Bling: Jamie Lynn Sigler
We're so happy for Jamie-Lynn Sigler - the actress confirmed her engagement to baseball player Cutter Dykstra via Twitter. In the image, Sigler shows off her impressive bling with a surprised look on her face. Our eyebrows were raised as well - we absolutely love her ring!
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Eva Longoria
Tony Parker got down on bended knee at the actress' L.A. home—which he'd filled with rose petals and candles—and asked her to be his wife with a 5-carat emerald-cut diamond surrounded by 247 accent diamonds.
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Penelope Cruz
Being one half of an incredibly private celeb couple, Cruz started wearing this gorgeous oval sapphire ring right around the time that she was wearing lots of layers to hide a growing baby bump, without confirming the increasingly obvious: that she was about to marry Javier Bardem and have his baby.
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Nicole Richie
Did you really think that the boho queen would go simple when it came time to design her own engagement ring before her nuptuals to Joel Madden? Perhaps simply wrap a twig around her ring finger? Not! She worked with jeweler Neil Lane on a round four-plus-carat ring surrounded by smaller diamonds forming an octagon.
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Mariah Carey
Nick Cannon plunked down $2.5 million bucks for a decidedly divaesque square 17-carat pink diamond stunner surrounded by two half moon diamonds and 58 intense pink diamonds, which he designed himself with hip hop diamond provider Jacobs & Co.
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Jessica Alba
Cash Warren gave a pregnant Alba a 5-carat Asscher cut ring in 2008. She's given him two daughters, Honor and Haven.
13. Ring: Camila Alves
Like the song says: "If you like it then you should've put a ring on it." After six years of dating, Matthew McConaughey did just that - proposing to his Brazilian girlfriend Camila Alves over the Christmas break. The couple met at an L.A. bar in 2006 and have two children together: son Levi, 3, and daughter, Vida, 2.


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Baby girl turned 8 months on Saturday and she just keeps getting yummier and yummier. We've talked a few times about not pursuing having more children and keeping Maddie an only child.... so we can focus on her being an Olympian. Great plan uh?
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
8 months
Baby girl turned 8 months on Saturday and she just keeps getting yummier and yummier. We've talked a few times about not pursuing having more children and keeping Maddie an only child.... so we can focus on her being an Olympian. Great plan uh?
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Sunday, July 29, 2012
Like everyone else in the world, we love watching the Olympics. There's something so empowering and encouraging about watching these athletes perform in a way not every single person can. I also can't help but remember how my life changed eight years ago right in the middle of the Athens Olympics. It's when my ex-husband moved out and I saw a Mormon chick named Megan rowing for the US "quad" that I knew deep down in my veins rowing was for me. It wasn't until two years later that the dream came true and I met my man but looking back I know everything was perfectly timed.
Also, does anyone else compare their life experiences in reference to the Olympics? Let's do a little review....
1980- Moscow. My mother was pregnant with me and little did they know how amazing their life would be with me in it!
1984- Los Angeles. I was almost 4 years old. We just moved to Idaho from Georgia. I'm positive I was a perfect child.
1988- South Korea. Probably beating up on boys at school and making mud pies in ditches.
1992- Barcelona. Just moved back to Georgia from Idaho and buried Daddy Jimmy, my dads dad.
1996- Atlanta. I was almost 16 and trying to figure out how to survive my childhood as an unbalanced teenager. I wish I remembered more of visiting the Olympic park and things...
2000- Sydney. I was almost 20 living in Salt Lake City and 2-3 weeks shy of getting married for the first time. Oy vay.
2004- Greece. Just bought a house with the ex and right smack in the middle of coming to the realization that I was going to be a 23 year divorcee. Later realizing it was the best thing to ever happen to me.
2008- Beijing. Re-married this time to the man of my dreams I was convinced didn't existed. Experienced another life-changing experience when dad died two days into the games.
2012- London. Still married to the man of my dreams, living in Connecticut and raising our baby girl because adoption rocks!
A few things I've realized in the last two minutes... 1- I would love to see Cony's timeline. 2. I love watching rowing. It does my heart really good. 3. I'm curious to see where our life will be during the next summer games.
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Friday, July 27, 2012
I love UConn
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012
The M Cubed
I'm trying really hard not to be totally and completely devastated that I haven't written everything little thing down that our baby has done or eaten or seen or heard. That being said, I have a new appreciation for my phone because without it I would not have 90% of her milestones documented in some fashion.
Her very first tooth popped out last Sunday (July 15th) and I know more are coming. There are some night it takes her an hour to settle down and it's hard not being able to do much for her pain.
This past Sunday we put her on the floor during church service and before we knew it she had crawled two pews back to play with new faces and then about 10 minutes later I turn around and another family has her that's about 4 pews back. I really do pay attention to my child but she is very active and I know she needs to work her little muscles so it's hard not to let her roam.
Maddie has been crawling for a solid two months now and is fast as lightening. She climbs on everything or everyone and I'm just waiting for her new push toy to come. Because whether I like it or not... she's ready. She's already standing on her own for a second without falling and just squatting down to all fours. She loves loves loves watching Baby Einstein. I have mixed feelings about this but I can not tell a lie, with her 5:30 or 6:00 morning wake up call- it's convenient for me.
She's gotten really good climbing over and pulling on Gracie and Gracie takes it like a champ. I love having Gracie now that Maddie is feeding herself a few times a day because she makes a really good vacuum. And just so we are clear... I've always loved having Gracie.
The last two weeks I have noticed that she as started to favor me when she's with someone else. She has yet to meet a stranger and for a while I felt she would rather be with them than myself or Cony. But it warms my little heart that is changing. Don't get me wrong- I love that she loves "strangers" but I love more that she knows me.
What I love the most is hearing Cony say "Man, we have an awesome baby. I didn't know babies could be so much fun!" We feel blessed. Wish there was a way for our Devon to make all our babies.
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Sunflowers & Subs
Today is Pioneer Day and last week the youth went on TREK and since I work with the youth we went to the "Welcome to the Valley" activity on Saturday. (Pioneer Day is a day we Mormon's celebrate the trek our pioneers made to the West in the 1800's and settled Utah).
Afterwards we went to a Naval Museum where you can tour a submarine. All for free. It was a neat experience to get a small glimpse of how Cony lived for almost 4 years. I have no clue how he did what he did in a sub UNDER water. I think I would be happier sleeping in an igloo with no blankets... and I hate the cold.
Monday evening we went to a sunflower farm with our Rose's and Seal's which has become my favorite thing to do each summer. I have decided that when we retire I really want to have a Sunflower /Christmas tree farm with a B&B on the property for Afton to manage! I told Cony my plan and he thankfully agreed. It feels so good to have a (set) plan for our future. Oh, and I can't forget the honeybee's on the farm too. I really am being serious.
Posted by M Crew at 4:06 PM 3 comments
How Does Your Garden Grow?
This year we decided to plant a garden and thought more of it as a test run but it's been growing and producing really well. We both have a new found love for gardening and find it very gratifying. We've learned a lot already and we're making notes for next years garden.
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A week ago I had the chance to spend a Saturday with Gwen, Nancy and Crystal. We call ourselves DOLs: Dogs Off Leashes. We did a few planned things but more unexpected... and it felt so nice not to be in a rush for anyone or anything.
We started by visiting a small grave site..
Found Devil's Hopyard Park..
We really do live close to the coast and I forget it all the time.
I believe we all gasped when we saw this home...
We had a really sweet picnic at the Florence Griswold Museum before we went on a tour. Something I love about CT/NE is the fact libraries have passes you can check out to get into museums, parks, etc for either free or half off.
I love spending time with my DOLs and so grateful for their friendships and talents. Because I have learned so much from them.
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Thursday, July 12, 2012
Summer Adventures
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Think you can take it? Don't even bother with that calculation. See RESTREPO,
Navy SEAL Lt. Michael P. Murphy was deployed to Afghanistan in April 2005. Awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously, he led a four-man SEAL squad that covertly infiltrated the 9,000-foot Hindu-Kush mountains along the Pakistan border on June 27, seeking to capture or kill high-value Taliban targets. Though wounded, Murphy still engaged the fiercest firefight as he moved to higher ground, openly engaging electronic outreach for help, for which he signed-off, "Thank you."
Also chronicled is April 14, 2010, when the pullout of the remaining 120 U.S. soldiers from the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan occurred. Part of a strategy announced in 2009 by top American and NATO commander General Stanley McChrystal, this forced re-deployment sought to abandon small, difficult-to-defend bases in remote, sparsely populated areas and concentrate forces around major population centers. Significant numbers of those outposts were established in the intervening years to monitor Taliban and Al Qaeda penetration from Pakistan but proved difficult to re-supply and defend.
RESTREPO, a 15-man outpost named after a 20 year-old platoon medic killed in action, was one such exceptional stronghold.
RESTREPO (the film) opens in New York at the Angelika Film Center, with a national roll-out to follow.


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Rumors that the XO laptop still has some refinement in terms of both pricing and configuration were confirmed late last week. A spokesperson for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Project told the AP on Friday that the price of the XO laptop has risen to $188 per unit and that the project faces product delays. The cost increase of approximately $12 may not seem like much, but given that initial orders from governments must amount to at least 100,000 units, it all adds up quickly.
The OLPC project designed the XO laptop to be used by students in developing countries. The non-profit organization will sell the laptops to foreign governments to distribute to children through schools. Although the systems were originally intended to sell for $100 each, the price has steadily climbed as a result of additional features and unexpected costs.
The XO laptops, which are being manufactured by Quanta in Taiwan, include innovative hardware features like a dual-mode LCD screen, a pull-string charger, a wide touchpad, and a unique wireless mesh network system. The XO's Linux-based operating system also includes innovative features including a highly unusual user interface.
The OLPC Project now faces competition from Intel's Classmate PC and a new laptop developed by Asus called the Eee PC that is scheduled for release this month.
The OLPC Project reportedly faces delays as well, but the severity of those delays isn't apparent yet. In the latest OLPC community newsletter, which was written last week, OLPC president Walter Bender says "there were Sugar, network, and security reviews this week resulting in the reporting of some new bugs and future features. One outcome was the identification of some last-minute features, so we will not be ready for code freeze on Monday—we are probably off by about a week. Next week, we will have a major push to get all remaining blocking bugs addressed."
Although the XO laptop has fallen short of initial expectations and far exceeded the original anticipated price of $100, the project is still heading towards a strong launch with a product that has lots of potential. The project is still confident that it can reach $100 per unit (if not below) over the next year or two with scale, but achieving that scale is going to be hard in the face of price increases.


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By Rachel Follender
Hampton Union, September 17, 2013
[The following article is courtesy of the Hampton Union and Seacoast Online.]
The Rim sports complex, located at 311 Winnacunnet Road
next to the Seacoast United Soccer Club, held a grand opening
event on Saturday. [Ionna Raptis photo]
HAMPTON — Local sports enthusiasts gathered at 311 Winnacunnet Road in Hampton on Saturday to break in five brand new basketball and volleyball courts at Above The Rim, the Seacoast's new state-of-the-art sports complex.
Hundreds attended the grand opening ribbon cutting ceremony, partaking in the complimentary cookout and pickup basketball games inside the facility. Owners Tom Viviano of Hampton and Peter Maher of Exeter said they were excited to finally open the complex nicknamed "The Rim."
"It's been a four-year process from the original concept to the completion of the project," Viviano said.
Viviano got the idea for The Rim years ago when he would drive his children to basketball practices and tournaments all over the area.
"There were no indoor facilities for basketball in the Seacoast," he said.
But The Rim is much more than a few courts. The facility, which is located next to the Seacoast United Soccer Club, has classrooms where children can learn about health and nutrition, and will also be used to provide tutoring and study spaces as part of after-school programs. The 36,000-square-foot sports complex also comes fully equipped with a weight-training center and concession area for healthy snacks.
"We want kids to understand that education is first and foremost, and we want them to be healthy," Viviano said. "We want to be considered an elite facility, but anybody can come and learn to be the best athlete they can be."
While The Rim welcomes athletes of all ages and abilities (there are memberships and programs for the elderly), the staff members are among the best in the area. The Rim has partnerships with The Athletic Performance Center of Exeter Hospital, Spartans Basketball, Visionary Basketball Group, Great Bay Volleyball Club and Zero Gravity Basketball.
"We're surrounding ourselves with the best people," Maher said. "We're all about developing the complete athlete and teaching kids things they can learn and develop throughout their lives."
Spartans Basketball Director Chris Coates said he's thrilled to have a new home base after being at the mercy of local schools to get access to basketball courts. He said he's looking forward to working with so many different coaches and trainers.
"It's a great staff," Coates said. "There are no egos. It's all about the kids and getting the community involved."
"This is a great model to develop the complete athlete," said Anthony Taylor of Visionary Basketball Group, a former Division 1 basketball player for Miami University of Ohio.
"The kids will learn the physical aspects, how to be a leader, and the educational piece as well."
Coates added that the proximity to Seacoast United would allow for a beneficial partnership helping to further develop a shared message of health, leadership and education.
"We help market for each other so we can both be successful," he said.
In addition to team practices and after-school programs, The Rim will host basketball and volleyball tournaments and will be available to rent for company outings and birthday parties.
"It's a lot of fun," said 14-year-old Liam Viviano, a member of Visionary Basketball Group and son of co-owner Tom Viviano. "I'm excited to be spending a lot of time here."
Rich Ruffin of Seabrook jumps to deflect a shot by Darius Tibbs of
North Hampton during a game of basketball at Above The Rim sports
complex at 311 Winnacunnet Road in Hampton. Owners held a grand
opening event Saturday at the new sports complex. [Ionna Raptis photo]
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At the European SharePoint Conference in May 2014 in Barcelona, Jeremy Thake caught up with Radi Atanassov about why OAuth is important to developers in the new App Model.
In SharePoint 2013, the OAuth authentication and authorization flow for apps involves a series of interactions between your app, SharePoint 2013, the authorization server, and the end user at runtime. The authorization server in this scenario is Windows Azure Access Control Service (ACS).
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Radi Atanassov is a professional SharePoint architect, a Microsoft Certified Master in SharePoint and a diehard fanatic when it comes to SharePoint application development. With many years full of development experience, Radi's background demonstrates strong ambitions to achieve the greatest quality, architecture, attention to detail, and smooth processes when leading teams to create applications on top of SharePoint. Radi is the founder and lead architect of OneBit Software, a Sofia-based SharePoint "mercenary" company providing solution development and SharePoint resources to Microsoft partners and clients around the world. Radi is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer, training SharePoint across learning centers and universities. In his spare time he blogs, writes articles, runs web camps, plays guitar, and leads the Web Platform User Group in Bulgaria. You can find Radi blogging at http://www.sharepoint.bg/radi and tweeting at @RadiAtanassov.
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Wing Commander. X-Wing. Elite. Privateer. Some of my favourite games of all time, yet all were missing one thing that upcoming MMO Infinity has: the ability to fly seamlessly from space to a planet's surface.
Sounds trivial, but if you've ever played a space shooter (or space trader!) you know exactly what I'm talking about; the jarring break in gameplay between space flight and a planetary location, the constant reminder that you're not flying through a space littered with physical objects you can land on, you're just...flying through a space.
I'll be honest, I'd known very little about this game until now, but between that trailer and some gorgeous art over on its site, I'll be looking into it...if it's ever actually released.


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Deer through windshield kills western Pa. woman
Carol Mitch killed in crash
State police say a deer struck by a vehicle crashed through the windshield of another vehicle headed in the opposite direction, killing a western Pennsylvania woman who was riding in the second car.
Troopers from the Butler barracks say the dead woman is Carol Mitch, of Butler. They didn't immediately release her age.
Police say the incident happened about 6:20 p.m. Sunday when a car traveling south on Route 8 in Brady Township hit the deer. The driver and passenger in that care weren't hurt.
But the deer was knocked into the path of a northbound car driven by Raymond Mitch, of Butler. Police say the driver wasn't hurt, but that his front-seat passenger was killed and that a female riding in the back also suffered minor injuries.
Police were still investigating Monday.
By the numbers: Deer collisions in America


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Wreck-It Ralph blew away the box office competition grossing $49.1 million in its opening weekend, according to Box Office Mojo.
The Disney animated film tells the story of an arcade game villain (voiced by John C. Reilly) who dreams of becoming a hero.
Flight, starring Denzel Washington, also debuted this weekend and brought in $25 million to land in the No. 2 spot
Argo tops slow box office weekend
In the third position was last weekend's box office winner Argo, which grossed $10.2 million. Right behind it was The Man with the Iron Fists with $8.2 million
Taken 2 only raked in $6 million, while Cloud Atlas made a disappointing $5.3 million.
Rounding out the top 10: Hotel Transylvania (No. 7, $4.5 million); Paranormal Activity 4 (No. 8, $4.3 million); Here Comes the Boom (No. 9, $3.7 million) and Silent Hill: Revelation 3-D (No. 10, $3.3 million).
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Team Compendium, Pokémon Organized Play (POP) and R&D have had multiple discussions prior to the 2015 US National Championships and at the 2015 World Championships. These discussions clarified for the Judge Staff how Pokémon wishes certain situations to be handled. POP is clarifying some of these in their Penalty Guidelines, but this article is meant to explain some of these best practices and to make sure the word is spread and put into practice. This article has been reviewed by POP and R&D and reflects their guidance.
Decklist Penalties:
The new Penalty Guidelines for the 2015-2016 season have been clarified and somewhat revised. There has been confusion in the past about best practices in this area, so don't be surprised if the following doesn't match up with how decklist issues have been handled in your area. This is, however, how Pokémon wants decklist issues to be handled going forward.
Previously, deck issues carried a relatively light penalty. Unless it was both an illegal list and an illegal deck, the penalty was only a Caution or a Warning. However, the "fix" to the deck problem was seen by many players as much harsher than the actual penalty. The usual fix of any mismatch between a deck and a decklist that could not be uniquely determined was the replacement of the offending card with a Basic Energy card.
Going forward, the fix of the deck will be more forgiving, however most Deck Penalties will start at Game Loss. The only exception will be Legal Deck, Legal Decklist, which will start at a Prize Loss.
If card has been listed but is unclear, the contents of the deck can be used to determine what the correct card should be. For example, if a list just says "Squirtle" but not the set or set number, then the decklist will be corrected and updated using the information from the actual Squirtle card in the deck. The player will keep the Squirtle in their deck. If the judge staff determines that a player is purposely swapping out similar cards, this penalty will be escalated to Unsporting Conduct: Cheating.
If a card is not listed at all, such as a decklist that has less than 60 cards listed, then it cannot have additional cards from the deck added to the list to bring the total up to 60. The unlisted card(s) must be replaced with Basic Energy. If the decklist lists a card but the deck contains another, then the decklist takes precedence and the deck must be corrected to match, or the non-listed card will be replaced with Basic Energy. In both of these cases, a Game Loss is the penalty.
Generally speaking, while a decklist/deck problem will earn a Game Loss, penalties can be still be escalated based on the Judge determining if any significant advantage has been gained.
Answering Players' questions during an event:
Judges have generally been following a rule of thumb of not answering most hypothetical questions from players and waiting until the action is actually performed before ruling on what happens as a result. The reasoning for this has been a reluctance to appear or actually give guidance that could be seen as "Coaching".
While the sentiment is laudable, feedback from Pokémon R&D and POP indicates judges have been too strict in this regard. Pokémon has instructed that players' questions of fact and rulings on card interactions are to be given to players when requested. The only types of questions that should not be answered are advice questions, such as "should I do this or should I do that?"
If there is a choice involved and are you being asked to help choose one choice vs another, do not answer that question. Any question along the lines of "if X is done to Y, what is the result?" should be answered. Note that this doesn't necessarily mean that we will be human calculators for players. If a player asks, "Will this attack do X damage?", you should ask them to walk through their calculations and then either confirm or correct them. This will give them the correct answer without encouraging them to be lazy about doing the math themselves.
Deck and discard pile arrangement:
POP is concerned with clarity of the Game Play area so that judges can easily see in passing what the game state is. However, this needs to be balanced with a player's needs to have the layout arranged in a manner that makes their gameplay smooth and easy. While the Rule Book includes a layout of the game play area, it is not meant to be enforced rigidly. It has become widely known that Pokémon allows players to switch the layout between right side and left side to make play easier for left handed players. So it is permissible for the deck and discard pile to be on the left hand size and the Prize cards on the right. The important thing is that the deck and discard pile are on one side and Prize cards (and Lost Zone) are on the other side. This gives sufficient clarity to the game state for judges to see what is going on, while also accommodating left handed players.
Similarly, Pokémon in not concerned about whether the deck and discard piles are switched in the layout. There are a number of good reasons that a Player might wish their discard pile to be further away from the table's edge. They are still easily distinguished from each other, as one is face up and the other is face down. Do not interrupt a match to enforce a layout that does not impact the game's clarity.
Note that the deck still needs to be orientated "north/south" with the open end of the sleeve facing away from the player as this requirement is in place to address specific cheating concerns. That has not changed.


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Lee Rodgers Tour of Korea diary: Strike!
Riders "strike" under torrential rains to cancel stage 4, following a brutal but successful day of attacking and hanging on
"Chief Comrade… sorry I meant Commissaire. The workers… dammit I mean the riders — they are refusing to work… sorry, to ride."
"My dear Head of Police, what do you mean, 'refusing?'"
"Refusing. They've downed tools. Sat up. Gone on strike. The air, it's murderous…"
"What reason do they give?"
"Chief Comrade, they… I mean… oh whatever – they say it's raining too hard."
"Oh, come on! WTF…!"
I'd never seen it before, the proletariat rising up against the yoke of tyranny to strike a blow for the disenfranchised athletes of the world. This could be the start of a Real World Order – an order governed by the riders, for the riders: where multi-use pathways will be reclaimed and raced upon; where bike thieves shall have their hands chopped off; and at 6:00 p.m. each evening, the Shaven-Legged Believers will bow on trainer mats and give thanks in the direction of Belgium!
Wait, I'm getting a little carried away with this theme…
So basically stage 4 started in an absolute downpour, with some whipping winds that motivated two guys to drop out of the race even before it began… or so I heard. The riders gathered and grumbled beneath the sign-in tents until the very last seconds before the start. On the roll out, the rain fell so hard that it stung the face and forced us to hit the brakes, as we just couldn't see a thing in front of us.
This was massively not fun. We bumped and gouged our way somehow through several roadworks behind the Comm car – with the expected 3km neutral dragging on to 4, then 5, then 7km, as the officials waited for one punctured rider after another to get back to the peloton. Problem was, just as one rider came up another punctured, and on it continued until suddenly an Azad University rider shouted "STOP!"
We stopped. Several riders gathered around the Chief Comm car in a scene right out of the days of Jimmy Hoffa (apart from all the lycra and the stink of embrocation). A bit of a hullabaloo ensued, words were exchanged, and I have a feeling the Chief Commissaire was more inclined to give us another 30km to see how conditions turned out. But suddenly a loud cheer went up, and riders began to turn and head for the team buses behind.
The 176km stage was over even before it had begun. With one whole inch of rain forecast for the area (that's a heck of a lot of bathtubs), and a reportedly dangerous descent at 85km with potholes and oil all over it, the call was perhaps for the best. Felt weird though, to not race. Our safety should always be paramount, though, and I guess it was the right decision. Had the Schlecks been there I'm sure they'd agree…
I asked some of the veterans (grand tour guys) if they'd seen anything like this before, and each of them scratched their heads before saying "No." Still, like 99 percent of us, they weren't complaining. Another day down and we are still third on GC with Dave McCann and second on the team GC.
Stage 3 was not quite as rebellious as today but it was a thumper of a day for me personally – thumper as in, I got my arse kicked all over west Korea by the wearer of a very sturdy pair of steel-toe boots.
We set off on a ridiculously beautiful morning (the way spring mornings are supposed to be), and as usual the attacks began at 0km. For the next two hours I followed attack after attack, keeping an eye out for Team Optum guys going off the front (Candelario of Optum was in yellow) – and just generally trying to make sure, along with teammates Martin Irvine and Alex Coutts, that RTS Racing was represented if any break did go.
Not easy work, that, when every Tom, Dick and Cheung Gyo Jeong wants to get away.
With my legs beginning to ache a little, there was a lull at about 85km gone. Dave came up to me and nodded ahead – the signal for me to attack. The domestique doesn't get to ask "Why?" he just bloody well goes. Dave has much more experience than I and reads a race like a book, so I did as I was nodded and set off. I didn't get too far, but it did shake the bunch awake to the dangerous six-man break up ahead. I got caught on a 2km drag and had to bust it to get over with the leaders, and I was already feeling a little cramp come in. Not good.
More attacking nonsense followed, then after about another 20km, another lull came, and another nod, and off I galloped once again – this time just before the first of two meaty little hills. I was joined by a Korean national team rider, but in all honesty we were suffering. We made it over the first hill ahead of the pack but got caught on the second, and here I really fell to pieces.
The cramping (it was in my triceps by now, not a good sign at all!) meant it was now almost impossible for me to get out of the saddle, so I had to grind out a big gear to keep up with the big dudes at the back. At one point I was about to go all Captain Oates and wander off into the trees "for some time." But, stupid as ever, I did my best to ignore the sensation – even though it felt like a burly short order chef separating my thigh muscle from bone with two dull spatulas and then splattering my guts to shreds – and get over the top with the last wheel just a meter away.
I made it. We were a group of 12, all desperate, some hollow-eyed, and at least three with mullets (that really has to stop!). But yet again the ineradicable power of the human will somehow saved the day, and we caught one group, then another, and then finally the high rollers at the front. I almost lost touch two or three times on the smallest of rises but, with my also-sick teammate Alex Coutts battling away to the bitter end, and with second place on the team GC at stake, I made it to the line in the peloton.
Dave and Jai Crawford looked fine, and we have high hopes for the rest of the week. An event-filled couple of days indeed.
Thanks for reading.
17 years after stopping racing as a junior in England and traveling and working around the world, Lee Rodgers started cycling again 4 years ago "to lose a bit of weight" and now rides for UCI Continental team, RTS Racing Team, based in Taiwan. He works full-time as a journalist and part-time as a cyclist. Check out Lee's previous diary entries


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Briscoe v. Virginia, Argument Recap
(Restored from Monday post)
When the author of a Supreme Court opinion insists that the ruling had already decided an issue raised in a sequel case, the obvious question is: why was the second one granted? Justice Antonin Scalia, the author of last June's controversial, 5-4 decision in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, had an answer on Monday when the Court heard Briscoe, et al., v. Virginia: "Why is this case here except as an opportunity to upset Melendez-Diaz?"
As Justice Scalia clear, he understands that the June decision laid down the rule that, if the Confrontation Clause is to be satisfied when the prosecution wants to offer a crime lab report as evidence, the prosecution itself must call that witness as part of its own case, not require the defense to do so. That is precisely the question posed in the Briscoe case. And Scalia went on to explicitly criticize the Court "for taking the case."
Scalia's comments demonstrated that the fate of Melendez-Diaz may well be the critical issue at stake seven months after it was decided. And that, in turn, raised two questions: would the Justices in the majority and in the dissent in that case hold fast to their opposing positions, and, if they did, how would Justice Sonia Sotomayor, newly arrived on the Court, break the tie? That, predictably, put much of the focus in the Briscoe argument on what Sotomayor had to say.
By the end of the hearing, however, Sotomayor had been on both sides of the issue. When the lawyer for the drug traffickers involved in the case was at the lectern, she seemed skeptical about the argument that the Constitution required the prosecution necessarily to call to the stand any witness on whose out-of-court statement it intended to rely. But when two lawyers outlining the prosecutors' view, were arguing, Sotomayor appeared to sense an effort to undermine what Melendez-Diaz had established.
Michigan law professor Richard D. Friedman, arguing for the two convicted men, opened by saying that he was not asking the Court to go beyond what Melendez-Diaz established, and thus suggested what Scalia would later emphasize: that decision, indeed, required the prosecution to summon to the witness stand any witnesses whose statements it was offering as evidence. Putting the burden of calling that adverse witness during the defense case, Friedman said, would amount to overruling Melendez-Dias and would bring about "a fundamental transformation" of ancient trial practice
Sotomayor immediately suggested that the Confrontation Clause may be only about some chance to cross-examine a prosecution witness, and not "an affirmative obligation" on the prosecution to call that witness. She also expressed doubt about Friedman's secondary argument that, once the prosecution did put the witness on the stand, it had a constitutional duty to ask enough questions so that the defense could then have a meaningful chance to challenge the witness' testimony "" a claim that Sotomayor said was not established in history or by any case. "You are asking us now to state something that you admit is in really no constitutional case or historical case," she said.
Friedman also had trouble with Justices Samuel A. Alito, Jr., and Stephen G. Breyer, who, of course, were dissenters last June. Those two Justices tried to make a point (but it did not much distract Friedman) about the supposedly heave burden Melendez-Diaz was putting upon prosecutors' ability to try cases in which drugs and other physical evidence would come into a case through crime lab analysis.
Virginia's solicitor general, Stephen B. McCullough, immediately encountered difficulty with Justice Sotomayor, when he contended that the Virginia Supreme Court had interpreted its law on summoning witnesses in a way that fully protects the accused's confrontation rights. And she soon launched into a series of questions that she would pursue through the remainder of the argument, testing just how the Court could write a new ruling that would keep prosecutors from evading the Confrontation Clause by simply putting on a string of affidavits in order to avoid even calling witnesses for live testimony.
In response, she said, defense counsel would then have to summon the witness on their side of the case for a "cold-cross" "" a cross-examination without knowing at all what the witness might say. She seemed skeptical of McCullough's suggestion that there were constitutional ways to avoid such a trial by affidavit.
Justice Scalia sharply disputed the state lawyer's argument that the Confrontation Clause was limited to assuring cross-examination, and that the Virginia law satisfied that obligation. It was apparent that Scalia was launching into assertions about what Melendez-Diaz already had established about who had a duty to call prosecution witnesses.
An assistant to the U.S. Solicitor General, Leondra R. Kruger, arguing for the federal government as amicus on Virginia's side, would feel the brunt of Scalia's defense of his interpretation of Melendez-Diaz. He seemed perturbed about the government lawyer's argument that a right to confront a prosecution witness "" without more "" was all that the Constitution guaranteed, and her point that Friedman was simply trying to read into the Constitution a mandate on the "order of proof" at a criminal trial. He quoted passages from his opinion in Melendez-Diaz to her, with pointed emphasis.
Gamely, Kruger countered that "I think it would be surprising to discover that Melendez-Dias went quite so far" as Scalia was saying it did. Again, she said that the confrontation right extended only to ensuring that "the witness is available for cross-examination at trial." She went further, suggesting that the Court should shy away from inventing "a new body of Confrontation Clause jurisprudence" to govern the order of proof.
She appeared to surprise Justice Sotomayor with the suggestion that the government could rely on affidavits to make its case in virtually any criminal case, so long as the defense could then summon ythe witness for cross-examination on the affidavit. "So," Sotomayor said, " you are absolutely saying that, under the Confrontation Clause, trial by affidavit of any witness would be okay." Kruger seemed to backtrack a little, saying there might be Due Process Clause problems with such a proceeding. Sarcastically, Scalia retorted: "How many hundreds of cases will it take to identify those limits under that very clear Due Process Clause?"
When Kruger returned the emphasis to her argument that the prosecution's only duty was to make sure that its witnesses could be called at some point to testify, and said that was all that the Court needed to say in this case, Scalia promptly asked: "Why do we have to say anything?" And that was when he made his point that the case had been granted only to provide a chance "to upset Melendez-Diaz."